NATO Human Factors

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• NATO Human Factors MedicineTask Group on
  Recruiting Retention ofMilitary Personnel
  (HFM 107 / RTG 034)
• Task Group Introduction

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Participants

• Participants Country
• Dr. Tanja Blackstone United States
• Capt (Navy) Santos Blanco Spain
• Ms Dawn Johansen United Kingdom
• Lt Col Psych Francois Lescreve Belgium
• Major Rob Morrow Canada (Co-Chair)
• Capt Psych Jose Puente Spain
• Mr. Bert Schreurs Belgium
• Dr. Gerhard Storm Germany (Chair)
• Joanne Suddaby-Smith United Kingdom
• Dr. Canan Sumer Turkey
• Ms. Fariya Syed Canada (Co-Chair)
• Mr. Cyril Van de ven Netherlands

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Outline

• Task Group Background
• Terms of Reference
• Deliverables
• Status

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Background

• Exploratory Team met twice in 2002 to develop a
  Terms of Reference (ToR) and Program of Work
  (POW) for the Task Group
• These documents provided the detail for the group
  to begin its work

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Purpose

• The main goal of the TG is to foster a true
  understanding of the mechanisms that influence
  recruitment, selection and classification,
  retention and turnover outcomes. In order to
  achieve this goal, a generic military model will
  be developed.

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Research Questions

• Why do people join the Military?
• Why do they decide to stay in or leave the
  Military?

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Topics

• The psychological contract
• The influence of information on turnover
• Management of recruitment, selection and
  classification (RSC) (management of the
  selection process, selection standards, and
  classification issues)
• Values research
• Individual needs

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Other Topics

• Transition
• Pers tempo/Ops tempo Quality of life
• Pay and benefits
• Gender minority issues
• Advertising Marketing in Recruiting

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Deliverables

• A final report of its activities which will
  include
• current information about the RR strategies of
  the member countries and
• the generic model
• A database of recruitment/retention research by
  country.
• A workshop or symposium as an RTO activity to
  disseminate its results.

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Status

• Work on the model continues
• Work in progress
• Research literature review of topics
• RR Strategies have been gathered by most
  countries and this will continue
• Research database is growing (gt130 articles)
• Conducting the workshop now

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Presentations

• Organized by spanning across a persons career
  from
• Attraction/recruiting
• Selection/classification
• Career/organizational issues and
• Transition/turnover
• Conclude by discussing the models and links to
  the topics